یاقین

یاقین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یقین‎ (yakın)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yak- (“to come near, good, nearby”)[1] + *-ïn (“noun forming suffix”).

Adjective

یاقین • (yakın)

1. close, near

Adverb

یاقین • (yakın)

1. closeby, nearby

Descendants

• Turkish: yakın

References

1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jAk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاقین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2190